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Originally Posted by cstross
I'm not sure -- this is inference, not informed comment -- but I think Tor's problem with the webscription bundle model is that they publish too much. Tor print about 330 books a year, so a webscription bundle for a month would potentially include up to 30 titles -- or it would have to be a limited subset. Either way, that introduces certain organizational problems (who goes into a five book bundle from the 30 books published per month? How do you handle accounting for author royalties?) and a bunch of other headaches. Much simpler just to stick to individual book sales and let the readers make up their own bundles. They can always add a discount coupon code later -- buy 5 books, get a 20% discount, or something similar.
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30 sounds tricky, but maybe they could break it down to a 'SF bundle', 'fantasy bundle', 'classics bundle', 'paranormal romance' bundle or whatever.
Does sound tricky though until they borrowed Baen's lawyers and accountants to work it out.
Just being able to get the single books at reasonable prices is cool enough to start with, although no-one would say no to a discount for mass purchase.
(Fictionwise has that sort of thing, and a club).
